Two Soldiers in London

We’ve been bumping into
these two authors for some time now, as they have a huge international
following, especially in America
where their CWA International Dagger Awarded novel Three Seconds hit the NYT
Bestseller lists - which was released at

José Pereira at the Organized Crime and Gang Section
has a wall in his office covered with mug shots. Young boys who act like
hardened criminals and are classified as severely dangerous. Twenty years ago, Pereira was convinced
that gang criminality was the stuff of American movies. Now he knows better and
he knows that he is dealing with an escalating problem; five thousand young
Swedish boys on their way into criminal networks.

One day a new picture is tacked to Pereira’s wall. Eddie is a twelve-year-old
boy from Råby who hides his gun in his school locker and his capsules of
amphetamine under the freezer at the local grocery store. He will risk just
about anything in order to one day feel that he belongs somewhere.

Meanwhile, Leon is incarcerated at the Aspsås
prison forty kilometers away. From his prison cell, he composes a letter to his
beloved brother Gabriel – the only person he trusts. The letter is the
beginning of a plan that by way of aggression, violence and death will bring
them to the very top of that wall of mug shots at the police station. The hunt
begins when three inmates are sprung from the maximum-security prison. Leon and
Gabriel cross paths with Chief Inspector Ewert Grens and José Pereira, who are
searching for an assassin that Grens knows far more about than what he would
like to.

Filled with drama and tough
action it is as authentic as it is disturbing, taking a peek below the shadows
that form what we term a civilized society.

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